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The Search For <Class:0x00000027b59290>
A mostly-ranty little story about finding a phantom call messing up all the pretty green dots in our test output. [READ MORE]
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Testing in ManageIQ
A talk co-presented with the very awesome Joe Rafaniello about testing with RSpec in ManageIQ; presented at the 2016 ManageIQ Summit in Mahwah, NJ. [READ MORE]
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I'm moving! A thank you to DC Rubyists
I'm leaving the DC area, but you can bet I'll be back to visit. A short aside to thank the fantastic DC area Ruby community. [READ MORE]
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Don't become an Expert Beginner
This post is older by now but still so, so important - and this is something that is universal to all learning, not just software development (or bowling!). Erik Dietrich explains How Developers Stop Learning. [READ MORE]
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Git autofix for amending Pull Requests
A quick share of two custom commands for instantly rebasing edits back into their proper commits in your feature branch. [READ MORE]
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A Comprehensive Degree of Ruby 2.3
A wide-ranged look at the newly released Ruby 2.3 - covering everything from the pragmatic, blog-popular methods (the safe navigation operator, Hash#dig, etc) to performance increases (HTML escaping is now up to 7x faster!) and the experimental features to save and load instruction sequences for Ruby’s virtual machine. [READ MORE]
Chris Arcand
Principal Engineer building Terraform at IBM / HashiCorp 👨💻 Formerly: Red Hat, NBC SportsEngine, RubyMN organizer. Once played the clarinet for a living, now making a living to play hockey. I make pointless connections to Minnesota as a Minnesotan does.
St. Paul, MN